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...next phase is shaping up, among other things, as a Giuliani vs. Romney cage fight. Atop the national polls and ahead in fund-raising, Giuliani is proving steadier and more resilient than many GOP veterans expected. While Giuliani raised $10 million and has $16 million on hand, Romney's quiet self-subsidy of more than $8 million means that he too will have the money for the main event of the Republican race this fall and winter: the head to head bash-a-thon in which the two men accuse the other on the stump and in paid advertising...
...many values voters, Giuliani's rise is one more insult in the wake of the serial GOP sex scandals in Congress, the failure of George W. Bush's Administration to amend the Constitution to outlaw gay marriage, and a hunch that religious voters register on the Republican radar only when Election Day is in sight...
...threat has a certain beautiful logic, even if following through with it would be suicidal. To conservatives who don't love Giuliani but hate Hillary Clinton, the message is very simple: Don't bother swallowing your principles to stop Clinton because if enough pro-lifers shift to a third party, Rudy loses anyway. The purists are also making a pragmatic argument: If your conscience doesn't guide you, how about self-interest? Take abortion off the table, warns Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' political point man, and "what you do is give the Democrats a license to go hunting...
...virtuecrats face a challenge from Republican voters who back Giuliani on principle--just a different set of principles from Dobson's. For many voters, the existential threat of Islamic terrorism trumps domestic social issues like abortion and gay marriage. A Pew Research Center poll finds a continuing shift in the issue valence: even among white Evangelical Protestants, the war is described as very important by 66%, compared with 56% for social issues. That can only help the former New York City mayor whose local war on terrorism was viewed as more competent than Bush's and who famously ejected Yasser...
Land flatly asserts that "Giuliani would be the nominee if he were pro-life." Of course, he adds, "even if he told me he was pro-life, he also told three wives he'd love, honor and cherish them till death do us part." As for Giuliani, he responded to the third-party threat by embracing the very argument his critics despise. "Every poll shows that I would be, by far, the strongest candidate against Hillary Clinton," he said the day after the grenade landed. "There hasn't been one taken in the last six or seven months that shows...